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… In response to a question by Mr R Jankielsohn (DP) in the National Assembly, President Mbeki replies that he spent 300 days in …

… The United Party suffers reverses in municipal elections in the Transvaal and fails to contest the Randburg seats because of in …

… The farm Turffontein in the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek is registered in the name of Abraham Smit. In the following sixteen yea …

… against the Danish Government outside the Town Hall in Cape Town in protest to the publication of cartoons in a …

… Boniface, author of the first original drama published in South Africa, is born in Paris, France.   In the dr …

… Concluding its investigation into the crash in the mountains near George in the Western Cape in which former SA cricket captain …

… Anglo-Boer War 2:  The first ‘Mafeking night”. In an unprecedented display of public emotions, life in the great cities in Bri …

… Joseph Kasavubu, first president of the Congo, dies in Boma, lower Congo.  He was born in Tshela, Leopoldville Province, in 19 …

… Samora Machel was born in 1933 and was raised in the village of Chilembene. He was a member of the Shangana … with South Africa, there was widespread suspicion that the apartheid regime was implicated in the crash. On October 6, …

… Neil Hudson Aggett was born in Nanyuki, Kenya on 6th October 1953, the first-born child of Aubrey and Joy Aggett. He began his schooling in Kenya, and when his parents moved to South Africa in the … by singing revolutionary songs. After the collapse of Apartheid in 1994, the case of Agget came before the Truth …

… a BA Degree. She went on to become a prominent journalist in the 1970s and 1980s. Zille became well-known after she … death of Black Consciousness Movement leader Steve Biko. In the 1980s she joined the anti-Apartheid organisation the Black Sash . In the 1990s Zille …

… is of Khoikhoi origin means 'Tree Hill' recorded as such in 1778. In the Area is the Augrabies National Park where the Northern … Anagob, a Mountain Peak in Northern Cape …

… was born on 21 August 1929, to Indian immigrant parents in Schweizer Reneke, a small town in Western Transvaal [now … and the SAIC. The  Defiance Campaign  targeted six unjust Apartheid laws, amongst them the Pass Laws , Stock Limitation … 468/64. This was a section where those considered by the Apartheid government as influential leaders or members of …

… sent from the Netherlands, to find a trade Route to India in 1592. It was captained by Cornelius de Houtman. The … of their Sea journey was kept by; Paulus van Caerden, in his native language of Dutch! On the 6 th of August 1595 … with the various Portuguese navigators who had landed in Aguada de Sanbras, later known as Mossel Bay!   …

… a stampede that killed twelve people. Among those killed in the stampede were four children, the youngest age five. … with spectators. At the beginning of the match some people in the stadium chanted Movement of Democratic Change (MDC) … mentioned although not conclusively, that MDC had a hand in the stampede, something the movement denied later. Other …

… Southern African Development Community (SADC), was signed in the Namibian capital, Windhoek, to replace its forerunner, … Africa was not a member until the new treaty was signed in 1992. The structure has now grown from nine to fourteen … SADC treaty is signed in Namibia …

… the people of Africa as part of the liberals function in ensuring a positive socio-political change of thought. Bearing in mind that education is a Human Right and should not be … Education, development and change in Africa …

… a lawyer who owned a law firm and employed his brother in-law Harold Wolpe. Unbeknownst to Kantor, Wolpe was an … as the headquarters of MK. When the police raided the farm in 1963 several leading members of MK were arrested. Kantor … law profession and wrote about his experiences under the apartheid government. Kantor died of a heart attack in 1974. …

… Two rival political organisations in Zimbabwe, the Ndebele-dominated Zimbabwe African People's … Robert Mugabe, finally merged following consensus reached in 1987 to form a new political party called the Zimbabwean … Two rival movements merge in Zimbabwe …

… Nine ships were wrecked and 208 lives lost in Table Bay during a severe gale at the Cape, proving again … Dias , the first Portuguese explorer to reach the Cape in 1488. There are more than 2 000 shipwrecks, dating back at … 9 Ships run ashore in Table Bay …

… Campaign against Passes in the Transvaal in 1919 by E. S. Reddy, 04 March 2012 …

… Performance Polemics in a Plural Society: South Afrcan Theatre in Transition by Sandra Herrington …

… The SA rugby team beats Australia 14-3 in the first test in Pretoria. …

… The SA rugby team beats France 26-3 in the first test in Durban. …

… Horace William Chapman, SA cricket player in two tests, is born in Durban. …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. 266. … Twenty-two residents are killed in Katlehong and Tokoza, in ongoing township violence. …

… Xenophon Constantine Balaskas, SA cricket player in nine tests, is born in Kimberley. …

… Thomas Campbell (42), SA cricket player in five test matches, dies in Natal. …

… Bishop Abel Muzorewa returns to Rhodesia after two years in exile in Tanzania. …

… Bishop Abel Muzorewa returns to Rhodesia after two years in exile in Tanzania. …